Today: Sunny with passing clouds, high 75. Winds out of the south-southwest at 10 to 20 miles per hour. Monday: Mostly cloudy, high 67, winds north-northeast at 5 to 10 m.p.h. Three Mile Harbor tides: Sunday, low, 10:19 a.m.; high, 4:37 p.m. Sunset today: 8:06 p.m.
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“As a result of the actions already taken and processes in place, the F.A.A. has significant concern that the court and the parties have introduced a major safety issue into this complex airspace system,” an F.A.A. official wrote in a letter to East Hampton Town after a judge on Monday blocked the scheduled closure of the airport as a public facility and its reopening as a private one with new restrictions.
By Christopher Walsh
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For a luxury Montauk rental, it sounds too good to be true. Six bedrooms, 7,300 square feet, ocean view, heated saltwater pool with waterfall edge, and top-of-the-line kitchen appliances listed for $2,500 a night on Airbnb. The catch, says the homeowner: It's a scam offered by "hosts" who've used the legitimate real estate photos to dupe unsuspecting vacationers.
By Judy D'Mello
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The first home game for East Hampton High School's unified basketball program had all the thrill of a varsity playoff game and all the heart a community could muster, showcasing the meaningful moments that can happen when players with developmental disabilities are given the same opportunity to do what many of their non-disabled peers do.
By Christine Sampson
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Voters across the South Fork approved their districts' 2022-23 budgets in Tuesday's vote. In the only districts with contested school board races, Springs and Sag Harbor, Emma Field and Erik Fredrickson were elected to the Springs board and Grainne Coen and Ronald Reed won seats in Sag Harbor.
By Christine Sampson
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Having beaten back a place to build a 180-foot tower to house emergency and personal wireless communications equipment in the woodlands of their neighborhood, a group of Springs residents is now asking East Hampton Town to make the approximately seven wooded acres a nature preserve.
By Christopher Walsh
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The East Hampton Town Board is working on many fronts to tackle the region's most bedeviling problem, and this week, board members reported on their progress on specific initiatives to provide affordable rental and ownership options for those who live or work in the town.
By Christine Sampson
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The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals and Design Review Board signed off last week on exterior improvements planned at Guild Hall. Both boards made it clear they had no control over the more controversial future of the John Drew Theater and its iconic "circus tent" roof, leaving all the drama inside the building.
By Christopher Gangemi
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"It's important to start now," Laura Tooman of Concerned Citizens of Montauk told the East Hampton Town Board, in urging it to adopt a plan that recommends a range of strategies to address risks to coastal areas as a result of climate-change-induced sea level rise, coastal erosion, and extreme weather. Among the plan's most controversial elements is a call for managed retreat in downtown Montauk.
By Christopher Walsh
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New York's First Congressional District would grow slightly under a proposed map by a neutral expert tasked with redrawing the state's congressional and State Senate district boundaries. Statewide, the map appears likely to encourage Republican gains in Washington, D.C., in November, possibly resulting in a G.O.P. majority in the House of Representatives as well as the Senate.
By Christopher Walsh
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Despite a significant uptick in Covid-19 cases, including the designation of Suffolk and Nassau Counties as a region now at high risk of virus transmission by the C.D.C., the number of patients admitted at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital has remained manageable, the hospital's chief medical officer has said.
By Christine Sampson
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The effort to preserve and restore the Springs house and studios of the late Abstract Expressionist artists James Brooks and Charlotte Park achieved yet another milestone this week when the Preservation League of New York State named the structures to its 2022-23 Seven to Save list, a registry highlighting the state's most at-risk historical places.
By Christopher Walsh
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For a new show at the Parrish Art Museum, Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas bring together more than 50 works by six female artists of color.
By Mark Segal
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The confinement of the early days of Covid-19 has changed the way we do things, maybe even permanently. Patrons of galleries and theaters still want streaming options, and arts organizations are reluctant to give up the national and even international exposure their programs have achieved in audience numbers often exponentially larger than their onsite capacity.
By Jennifer Landes
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Catbirds are neither rare nor shy. Work in your garden and you may soon have a catbird working alongside you. They're charming, excellent company, and release a seemingly infinite number of sounds when they open their black bills.
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Dense, foggy conditions over the weekend caused some anxiety for boaters and fishermen alike. The fishing was good in many locales, however, as the waters continue to warm up. It's almost enough to make you forget that diesel costs $6.75 a gallon at the docks these days.
By Jon M. Diat
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Four singles and four doubles players on East Hampton High School’s boys tennis team, which recently finished the regular season at 15-1 in league play, achieved all-county status last weekend.
By Jack Graves
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At the end of March, in an ambitious effort to eradicate ticks on North Haven, the village relaunched its campaign to install "four-poster" feeding stations for deer. The stations bait deer with corn. While they feed, a tickicide is applied directly to their necks.
By Christopher Gangemi
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In Iris Smyles’s new story collection, the pithy brilliance pours forth like water from a sculptural fountain.
Reviewed by Francis Levy
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The last will and testament of William Barns (1723-1814) of East Hampton was drafted on March 18, 1809. The Barns, or Barnes, family were among the earliest settlers of East Hampton, and this William was the son of another William Barns (1702-1726) and the former Martha Edwards (1706-1745).
By Mayra Scanlon
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